The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

every week jacob smith climbs a fifty foot ladder and winds up the weights on stouftvilles main street clock hes been doing it now for the past 25 years he claims that the mechanism should last for centuries staff photo the town clock stouffville for the past 36 years stouft villes monumental town clock has been ticking off the minutes and hours of residents lives while hundreds have gazed en quiringly on its face few have had the opportunity or the courage to mount the 60 foot high tower and inspect the inner workings of this masterpiece accompanied by the clocks caretaker jacob smith we took the trip friday afternoon believe me brocks monument is kids stuff by comparison jacob smith has been winding stouftvilles time piece since 1942 he does it once every eight days and for this service he rc- stouffv1lle application has been made to the federal tax department for income tax exemption on the contributions being made to the stouffvillc civic square fund if the application is granted announce ment will be made in this newspaper and official tax receipts will be provided to the contributors the fund continues to climb and the latest dona tions appear below individual citizens arc urged to make their contributions regardless of amount as soon as possible but pledges for future payment will be gratefully accepted everyone is asked to participate in this centennial project legion cenotaph an addition to the project will now be the inclu sion of the town cenotaph presently located in the park this addition is being made at the request of the stouff villc legion and the cost of this work is being borne by this organization previous total 5581000 dr l s klinck vancouver 2500 mr and mrs ross lamoreaux 1000 gordon birkctt 30000 george dickson edmonton 1500 albert sweeney 1000 mrs a v nolan 1500 ross winterstcin 20000 l c parkinson victoria bc 2500 stanley newmarch 1000 mrs mac symcs 1500 miss margery mortens 1000 mr and mrs lome boadwav 2500 mrs a heaton 1500 public utilities in memory of a e wcldon dr s s ball e h neville e r daniels 20000 dr and mrs j r pctrie 10000 mr and mrs james thomas 2500 mr and mrs thos jennings 2500 mr and mrs robt s lewis 5000 helen f legge toronto 500 hcnrv ogden 2500 rev douglas davis 2000 donald ferguson 2000 douglas bacon 2500 miss eva hoover 2500 j s martin 5000 rav appleton 2500 milton smith pcftcrlaw 2500 alavs viskonts 10000 mr and mrs norman nich 1000 c b spcnslcy 1500 jacob smith ceives 2 a week he can recall when he was paid 25 for the entire year the clock weights are 150 and 300 pounds apiece the pendulum weighs 30 pounds the works were last cleaned 15 years ago if properly cared for it will run for centuries said mr smith the glass in two of its four faces is cracked one side was hit by a bullet and the other by a snow ball the bell is located in the turret at the very top of the tower it was manufac tured in montreal the clock that cost 53000 was donated to the town by the family of the late rev and mrs william percy the tower costing 1600 was built by public subscription plaques now located in the former fire- hall building will be re set in the tower base when the civic square project is completed vol 78 no 39 stouffxillemarkhamuxbridge ont thurs february 23 1967 10 cents senior school for whitchurch musselmans lake a new senior school to accommodate students of grades 7 and 8 will be built on a nearcentral site in the township of whitchurch according to a deci sion of the area board monday night the property owned by mr allan gray contains 25 acres and is located on the 7th con cession north of the vandrof sideroad the price paid for the land was not disclosed dr morris smith chairman of the board told the tribune that building plans had not been finalized but indicated that the school would not be ready for the opening of the fall term in september he said that no immediate move would be made to close other smaller schools but suggested that portables and base ment rooms would be the first to go dr smith expressed enthusiasm over the site selection and said that the location was the first choice of the board he said that the mem bers would follow recommendations as prepared by the department education in establishing the size of building required reaches regional finals stouffville ruth parsons 17 a grade u student at stouffville dis trict high school has ad vanced to the regional fin als of the lions oratorical contest this competition will be held at aurora march 14 plan dog is gold medal stouffville thir teen year old beverley bell claremont rr 3 has added still another award to her growing list of ac complishments in the field of vocal and instru mental competition on saturday she won a gold medal in the accor dion solo class 13 years and under at the kiwanis music festival toronto she received a mark of 87 percent also on saturday the intermediate choir of st andrews united church in markham plac ed first beverley is a member of that group the leader is mrs peggy clark on feb 15 she placed second in the girls vocal solo class 14 years and under ruth parsons ruth earned the right to advance into the next round by placing first in a contest feb 15 for re gion is north held at cannington lions representatives from stouffville included william duxbury and wal ter piphcr ask 1450 to remove fire hall stouffville prices ranging from 1450 to 2000 have been asked by three firms for the remov al of the former fire hall building at main and civic streets in stouffville ten ders were opened at a meeting of council feb 16 allied wrecking compa ny of oshawa submitted the low bid the same firm asked 900 to remove two houses from sites on park street south where a roadwidening program is planned for this sum mer council agreed to dis cuss the matter further in committee with a repre sentative of the oshawa company in attendance to enforce control law too many strays stouffville in response to repeated warnings from officials of the department of agri culture and an increase in complaints from town residents stouftville council will take action to sec that their dog control bylaw is more strictly en forced reeve ken laushway said that incidents of rabies in york county had reached near epidemic proportions he said that stray clogs often become infected since they are in contact with wild ani mals the most prevalent carriers he noted that out of 12000 registered dogs in the county only 3200 had received antirabies shots at the free clinics he said that the response by stouffvillc pct- owncrs had been good but elsewhere it was dis couraging more permanent reeve laushway recom mended that the canine control officer be contact ed and asked to patrol the town more often there seem to be quite a few dogs running around ive received several com plaints councillor bob lewis termed the present ar rangement as haphazard we need someone more permanent he urged however that before any extreme action is taken that the people be warned of councils intention often in the winter time dogowners tend to be more lax lets not bring a man in here to ride rough shod over everyones pets the reeve suggested that the clerk contact the of ficer in an effort to work out a satisfactory agree ment he said he hoped in the meantime that the problem would be force fully publicized oest is ordered n double fatality joins son in hospital councillor trimmed stouffville stouff ville council has agreed to place a fullpage advertise ment in the centennial edi tion of the high school year book complete with a photograph of all mem bers and the clerk the cost of the space has been set at 55 im sorry my colleague on the right councillor jim mckellar has put the hedgetrimmers to his beard before the official photo was taken com mented reeve ken laush way j may cultivate some thing yet replied mr mc kcllar stroking his bristly mustache just wait till i put the wax on the ends councillor bob lewis agreed to prepare the page layout and present it for the members approval i home organizers to meet feb 28 unionville the organization meeting of the unionville home asso ciation will be held at the kennedy chiropractic clinic tuesday feb 28 at eight oclock the association initial ed by the unionville coun cil of churches plans to build own and operate a home for senior citizens in unionville the nominating commit tee include mrs don ald deacon donald allison robert dowse alfred hill malcolm mackenzic lome smith ewart stiv er and lloyd wiseman a slate of officers has been prepared for presentation tuesday night vandorf dr harry b cotnam ontarios su pervising coroner has or dered an inquest into the death of two men in an ac cident at vandorf that occurred only one day aft er whitchurch township police had ruled the vehi cle unsafe driver james francis dowling 26 of toronto and albert ingarra 42 rr 1 gormlcy died in stantly when their 1953 model auto crashed into a cnr bridge abutment dec 30 on the don mills road the car had been pur chased from a toronto dealer one week prior to the collision dr cotnam said the po lice declared the car un safe and had it towed off the road after repairs a licenced mechanic said it was fit to drive said the coroner more than 20 witnesses will be called to give evi dence the inquest date is feb 28 stouffville wolf gang dams 49 manager of stouffville bakery was on his way to visit his 10 year old son bernie in uxbridge cottage hospi tal saturday evening and was admitted as a patient he suffered two broken legs and head lacerations when his 1965 model sta tion wagon skidded out of control near goodwood and hit a tree mr dams had purchased the auto only two weeks before it was a total wreck constable john ross of whitby detachment ont ario provincial police con ducted the investigation at the scene high school problem skirts long hair stouffville the staff members at stouft ville district high school have a problem and the solution wont be found in algebra texts or ancient history books the question is when arc short skirts too short and long hair too long principal w e duxbury said that only a minority of the plus 500 students had to be checked and most of these were quite cooperative as for the hair he indi cated that the school had no cut and dried policy but a form teacher could judge for himself if the style was proper we have two or three on the shaggy side he said he asks mainly that it be kept washed and combed no trouble mrs a a gresham staff guidance instructress keeps a keen eye on the hemlines and a hand on the measuring tape the limit is three inches above the knee any girl that ex ceeds this rule is quietly but firmly told theres really been no trouble at all she said most girls are quite aware when theyve gone too far mrs gresham actually favors the shortskirt style trend it used to be that any girl that wore her skirts above the knee was considered fast but not any more its the fashion today and i feel they look quite smart but theres still a limit saved by the church i 723000 farm tax inflation stouffville in the year 1900 the taxes on buildings and property at the joe betz farm west of mongolia in markham township were 3212 in 1966 the taxes on the same farm now owned by mr llovd grove totalled 71842 a breakdown of the 1900 tax hill established a school rate of 914 a county rate of 966 and a township rate of 690 the total assessment at that lime was 4600 that was 67 years ajo stouffville reeve ken laushway admitted at a meeting of stouffvillc council feb 16 that only through the sale of the old anglican church building on main street was the town able to balance its 1966 budget the reeve said a surplus of about 3000 had been recorded but the 8500 received for the former church property had been included in the general account mr laushway warned the committee chairman to watch their 1967 expendi tures carefully so the some problem would not occur again he noted that some of the works were emergencies and costs in volved were unavoidable edward fosdick town plant manager unionville man killed in headon crash with gravel truck markham township recorded its third fatal accident in less than two weeks feb 15 when robert bud wilson s4 of unionville was killed on bayview avenue south of highway no 7 his southbound car collided with a gravel truck cora may wilson 75 wife of the victim was admitted to branson hospital north york staff ihoto stouffville serv ice will be held from the oneill funeral home stouffvillc on friday aft ernoon at two oclock for mr edward charles fos dick town disposal plant operator for the past ten years mr fosdick collapsed and died while at work tuesday afternoon he was 63 mr fosdick was releas ed from hospital earlier this month following an operation and was mak ing a satisfactory recov ery his death was attri buted to a heart attack gordon brown and grant turner both em ployees of the stouffvillc public utilities commis sion were in the plant at the time surviving is his wife the former marjoric grant and two daughters shirley of stouffvillc and marilyn mrs murray ferguson ol toronto rev alan borland of stouffvillc united church will conduct the service on friday with interment stoufivillc cemetery heart fund stouffville al though an objective of 1000 had been set for the first stouffvillc heart fund canvass saturday this figure was exceeded receipts totalled 1248 representatives of all church womens groups took par in the collection along with members of the kinsmen kinetic lions and legion clubs of stoufrvillc